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Train car with shields and striped banner under on display under car port with fence

Merci Train Boxcar

White man in suit, hat facing rail car covered in various coats of arms with banner sign painted "Francaise"

J. N. Heiskell and Merci Train Car

White man in suit, tie, standing among tables with various items, paintings, dolls, tableware

Merci Train Gifts

Group photo white men in suits, hats, stand by railcar marked "Union Pacific" with painted sign "Arkansas Rice from the people of Arkansas U.S.A. to the people of Europe."

Merci Train Officials

One white man watching another white man dumping rocks

"Another Marine Disaster" newspaper clipping

Mercury Steamboat Article

"Steamboat Disaster" newspaper clipping

Mercury Steamboat Article

Rock with red crystals embedded

Mercury Sulfide (or Cinnabar) Crystals

Five young men in green suits playing instruments and singing on stage in front of a green curtain

Merging Traffic

Older white man in suit jacket and tie

Jack Meriwether

Cartoon of fat smiling white man with oversized head and top hat holding lit cigar

Jack Meriwether Caricature by George Fisher

Cartoon showing fat white man in overalls with "J. Meriwether" on the front with tool box labeled "Skills of Leadership" in front of house labeled "New era of Little Rock Progress"

Jack Meriwether Cartoon

White man in suit

White man in suit with bow tie

Tall building with rounded towers, arched entrance and windows

Merrill Institute

Old white man with long beard in suit and tie

White man in military uniform with flag behind him

Ruins of a concrete foundation covered in leaves and dead branches in forest

Mess Hall Foundation

"Calamity prophet in epistle to public" newspaper clipping

Message from Cult Leader

shiny round black slime structures and webbing

Metatrichia vesparia

Group of women and children outside two-story house with four columns and balcony

Methodist Children's Home

Single-story building with bell tower and gothic arch windows next to multistory house

Methodist Episcopal Church

African-American women in formal dresses with a child sitting in chairs while men in suits stand behind them

Methodist Missionaries

Two people standing and one person sitting on porch of multistory red brick building fronted with four columns

Methodist Orphanage

Black and white drawing of a three-story building with columned entrances on at least two sides and a wrap-around covered porch

Methodist Orphanage

Machinery and workers digging up city street across from multistory Dillards and M. M. Cohn department stores

Metro Center Mall Construction

Truck and back hoe loader on city street behind "Road Closed" sign and barriers with multistory buildings on either side

Metro Center Mall Construction

White man with white hair in suit

Three white people in research lab wearing white jackets

White woman posing with young white girls in matching uniforms with goat outside house

White woman sitting playing an autoharp for group of white children and white man

Rhena Meyer with Autoharp

"The Miami Disaster" newspaper clipping

Miami Disaster Article

White man with mustache and glasses wearing suit and tie

Michael Lamoureux

White man staring in shirt and tie into camera

White man with bushy mustache in suit

Rev. J. W. Michaels

Mastodon skeleton on display in museum gallery

Mid-America Science Museum

"Mid-America Science Museum" entrance sign over paved walking path

Mid-America Science Museum Entrance

Patrons looking at exhibits inside multistory museum space

Mid-America Science Museum Interior

Raised walking platform through wooded area

Mid-America Science Museum Skywalk

Mid-America Science Museum Tesla Coil Certificate

"Middle Fork Barrens Natural Area" sign in forested area

Middle Fork Barrens Natural Area

Single-story house with covered porch and brick chimney

Map of white river region with structure locations

Single-story building with sign and red awnings on highway

Midway Park Cafe

RV trailer at abandoned gas station with canopy and parking lot

Midway Park Gas Station

Stack of books with medical equipment face mask watch and flip cell phone on chair with floral pattern

Midwife's Equipment Bag

Midwife Permit certificate for "Mary E Criner" dated January 17 1950

White man and three white women in hats and dresses posing with bus

White man smiling in white shirt with Arkansas shaped trophy on table next to him

Single-story building with awning next to "Mike's Cafe" sign

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